target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="#uce896bd0-176b-5da5-8dd0-9e05a3832922">Chapter 5: Fickle Gods, Warrior Art, and the Birth of Writing: Mesopotamian Art
Climbing toward the Clouds: Sumerian Architecture
The Eyes Have It: Scoping Out Sumerian Sculpture
Playing Puabi’s Lyre
Unraveling the Standard of Ur
Stalking Stone Warriors: Akkadian Art
Stamped in Stone: Hammurabi’s Code
Unlocking Assyrian Art
Babylon Has a Baby: New Babylon
Chapter 6: One Foot in the Tomb: Ancient Egyptian Art
Ancient Egypt 101
The Art of a Unified Egypt
The Egyptian Style: Proportion and Orientation
Excavating Old Kingdom Architecture
The In-Between Period and Middle Kingdom Realism
New Kingdom Art
Chapter 7: Greek Art, the Olympian Ego, and the Inventors of the Modern World
Mingling with the Minoans: Snake Goddesses, Minotaurs, and Bull Jumpers
Greek Sculpture: Stark Symmetry to a Delicate Balance
Figuring Out Greek Vase Painting
Rummaging through Ruins: Greek Architecture
Greece without Borders: Hellenism
Chapter 8: Etruscan and Roman Art: It’s All Greek to Me!
The Mysterious Etruscans
Infusing Art with Roman Influence
Revealing Roman Architecture: A Marriage of Style and Engineering
7 Part 3: Art after the Fall of Rome: AD 500–AD 1760 Chapter 9: The Graven Image: Early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic Art The Rise and Fall of Constantinople Early Christian Art in the West Byzantine Art Meets Imperial Splendor Islamic Art: Architectural Pathways to God Chapter 10: Mystics, Marauders, and Manuscripts: Medieval Art Irish Light: Illuminated Manuscripts Charlemagne: King of His Own Renaissance Weaving and Unweaving the Battle of Hastings: The Bayeux Tapestry Romanesque Architecture: Churches That Squat Romanesque Sculpture Relics and Reliquaries: Miraculous Leftovers Gothic Grandeur: Churches That Soar Stained-Glass Storytelling Gothic Sculpture Italian Gothic Gothic Painting: Cimabue, Duccio, and Giotto Tracking the Lady and the Unicorn: The Mystical Tapestries of Cluny Chapter 11: Born-Again Culture: The Early and High Renaissance The Early Renaissance in Central Italy The High Renaissance Chapter 12: Venetian Renaissance, Late Gothic, and the Renaissance in the North A Gondola Ride through the Venetian Renaissance Late Gothic: Northern Naturalism Northern Exposure: The Renaissance in the Netherlands and Germany Chapter 13: Art That’ll Stretch Your Neck: Mannerism Detecting the Non-Rules of Mannerism Pontormo: Front and Center Bronzino’s Background Symbols and Scene Layering Parmigianino: He’s Not a Cheese! Arcimboldo: À la Carte Art Sofonisba Anguissola (1532–1625): Invading Art History’s Guys’ Club El Greco: Stretched to the Limit Lavinia Fontana: The First Professional Female Painter Finding Your Footing in Giulio Romano’s Palazzo Te Chapter 14: When the Renaissance Went Baroque Baroque Origin, Purpose, and Style Annibale Carracci: Heavenly Ceilings Shedding Light on the Subject: Caravaggio and His Followers Elisabetta Sirani and an Art School for Women The Ecstasy and the Ecstasy: Bernini Sculpture Embracing Baroque Architecture Dutch and Flemish Realism
